You just have to love informative error messages.
One of our clients is getting the following error on a PHP (of course) driven
website:
Warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect.
File(XXXX) is not within the allowed
path(s): (XXXX/htdocs:/tmp) in XXXX on line 531
Okay, I read that as “file not found” but according to the
customer, if the file really didn't exist, she would get “file not
found” instead of “File … is not within the allowed path(s).” Which is
frustrating because the file in question does not exist!
Aaaaaarrrg!
So okay, humor the customer. Go ahead, try to do a search on “PHP
File is not within the allowed path” … go ahead … I'll wait …
See the problem?
A lot of sites seem to have that problem.
Searching the PHP site doesn't seem to be helping any either.
Does anyone have a clue? It appears that PHP is refusing to
search for files past a certain depth, but I can't say for sure that is the
problem, nor even what to look for to see if this is the
problem.
Sigh.
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